{"id":39505,"date":"2018-11-08T06:34:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T14:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=39505"},"modified":"2018-11-08T06:34:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T14:34:17","slug":"i-dont-know-whether-to-laugh-or-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/i-dont-know-whether-to-laugh-or-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"I don’t know whether to laugh or cry."},"content":{"rendered":"

He’s 69, but says doctors have told him he has the body of a 45-year-old. So. Naturally. These days:<\/p>\n

Dutch “positivity guru” demands a legal age change<\/a> because he “identifies” as younger. <\/p>\n

And being younger would help him get more responses on Tinder (among other things).<\/p>\n

He’s actually awaiting a court ruling. If it’s a joke, it’s one he’s taking pretty far.<\/p>\n

If it’s an act of culture jamming, it’s sublime.<\/p>\n

If it’s the Netherlands’ version of The Onion<\/em>, I’ve been had.<\/p>\n

Others are inspired by his example<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Here’s the original news story (in Dutch)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(H\/T Shel)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He’s 69, but says doctors have told him he has the body of a 45-year-old. So. Naturally. These days: Dutch “positivity guru” demands a legal age change because he “identifies” as younger. And being younger would help him get more responses on Tinder (among other things). He’s actually awaiting a court ruling. If it’s a joke, it’s one he’s taking pretty far. If it’s an act of culture jamming, it’s sublime. If it’s the Netherlands’ version of The Onion, I’ve been had. Others are inspired by his example. \ud83d\ude42 Here’s the original news story (in Dutch). (H\/T Shel)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39505"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39511,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39505\/revisions\/39511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}